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		<title>Kidnapped Victim Found 24 Years Later, Suspect Pleads Guilty in Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This case is yet another case that proves you should never give up hope until your child is found if they disappear with no trace. When times feel like you are at your wits end, remember there is always that small chance that your child too, could be found one day and when they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newt Gingrich Next In The Internet ‘Spreading’ Barrel</title>
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It all started with Rick Santorum, his anti gay comments provoked the Gay community to put up a website SpreadingSantorum.com that has caused a good deal of embarrassment to the Santorum camp. Rather than quietly deal with the problem by creating ‘Santorum’ rich articles that Google would place higher in the search rankings, there by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127730</link>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;The Last Call: A Bill Travis Mystery&#8221; by George Wier</title>
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Bill Travis first saw the beautiful woman while he was driving in heavy traffic on the loop near downtown Austin. The beautiful reddish blonde in the red roadster didn’t seem to mind that Bill Travis was staring at her. For a few minutes they played a cat and mouse game passing each other in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127729</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Kill Betty for her Organs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is written in oh so politically correct language, but it should set off alarm bells. A US government appointed ethicist at the National Institutes of Health just wrote an article in the British Medical Journal proposing the handicapped should be killed for organ donations.

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What makes an act of killing  morally wrong is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127728</link>
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		<title>GMO – A Round-up (Ready) Of The Current News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a couple of months since I last took a look at what is happening in the world of GMO food’s. I am pleased to report that it might seem that the Frankenfood manufacturers are not having it exactly their own way.
Lets kick off with the world of fish. The Huf Po has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127727</link>
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		<title>Google Craps On Mitt Romney</title>
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It would appear that presidential wannabe Mitt Romney is fighting a similar battle as Rick Santorum on the internet search giants Google and Bing.
Santorum&#8217;s anti gay comments led to the web site SpreadingSantorum.com being created. To say the least the site is not very flattering. To make matters worse a Google search on ‘Santorum’ places [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127726</link>
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		<title>Those Denying Resurrection Keep Religious Language To Spread Deception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 9/20/11 issues of Sojourners magazine is an advertisement for the 2012 Gladdening Light Symposium featuring Jesus Seminar scholar John Dominic Crossan.  Part of the ad copy reads, &#8220;Feed the soul, savor the beauty, and experience the communion love of Agape in the Gladdening Light of God.&#8221;
However, if Crossan is being heralded as what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127725</link>
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		<title>Der Schwed &#8212; yesterday and today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the 30 years war of the 17th century  Gustav Adolf den store (Gustavus Adophus) led his Swedish troops to many great victories in Europe.  Without him the Protestant cause may well  have lost out to the Catholic South.  His armies were at the time simply referred to as &#8220;Der Schwed&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127724</link>
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		<title>Obama throws a bone to Catholics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The typical Leftist belief that money grows on trees at work again.  Does he really think that health insurers will be able to provide cover without charging for it?  The companies will still charge  Catholic organizations the same as before,  even if contraception is not written down in the agreement between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127723</link>
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		<title>No Child Left Behind – Now (maybe)  - Some Child Allowed To Move Forward!</title>
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As is often the case, a piece of legislation, or initiative, sounds good on paper, but is a disaster in practice. The poster child (excuse the pun), was the awful No Child Left Behind act. The basic concept was great, who could possibly argue with the concept that every child be afforded the same educational [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127722</link>
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		<title>Basic Security Tips When Providing Free Wi-Fi at Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wi-Fi: freedom to connect wherever and whenever. And there is no better Wi-Fi than free Wi-Fi, unless we are talking “secure Wi-Fi” which usually isn’t free. Wi-Fi is great for bringing in customers and it’s a great promotional tool that creates customer loyalty. Merchants such as hotels, coffee shops, burger joints and just about anyplace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127572</link>
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		<title>HaLeigh Cummings Gone 3 Years Ago Today - Prayer Vigil Held Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago today 5 year old HaLeigh Cummings from Putnam County, Florida disappeared. It was as though she just disappeared into thin air. No one has seen or heard of her since.
The last person known to have seen her was her Dad’s then girlfriend, Misty Croslin. Misty had a lot of holes in her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127720</link>
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		<title>Missouri Mother Slashes Her Own Daughter&#8217;s Throat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 9 month old baby is in the hospital in critical condition after Camden County, Missouri authorities found the baby girl covered in blood with a deep wound to her neck. When they first spotted the child they thought she was dead but she lifted her head so they knew she was still hanging on. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127719</link>
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		<title>Ghosting Identity Theft Scams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are generally 2 types of financial identity theft. New account fraud and account takeover.
New account fraud Identity theft can occur when someone opens a new credit card in your name, maxes it out, and doesn’t pay the bill.
Account takeover Identity theft can also occur when a bad guy gets your information, uses it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127717</link>
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		<title>A Robert Wagner Secret Emerges…</title>
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I was talking to my good friend, retired Western Stuntman Jack Young and he shared a long kept secret with me.
Jack calls Tucson, Arizona home these days. Although he was based in Hollywood during his years as a stuntman he spent a good deal of time in Tucson on location. He fell in love with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127712</link>
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		<title>Atomic Vacation Fun In The 1950’s</title>
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Hey, lets face it, vacations are boring today. Where is the challenge in being pampered in a 5 star resort with golden beaches, calm blue seas, free booze and as much lobster as you keep down?
Back in the day there were much finer ways so shorten your lifespan than high cholesterol Lobster.
 How about a trip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127709</link>
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		<title>Washington Times Op-Ed warns about pro-Putin bias in Voice of America Russian programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a Washington Times Op-Ed, a Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting member Ted Lipien warned about a pro-Putin bias in the Voice of America Russian programs. Lipien reported that a highly respected independent journalist in Russia hired by the Broadcasting Board of Governors to evaluate the VOA Russian website concluded last year that it has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127707</link>
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		<title>Indian Banking System in danger of collapse..What are the solutions?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In yet another disturbing news, MidDay reported that three more phishing complaints have been registered yesterday in  Pune in which a total of Rs 17.50 lakhs have been lost by three customers of the banks.
Irrespective of the cause, it is to be recognized that this news reflects yet another nail being driven down  the coffin signifying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Sends Commenter Roland Martin For A Time Out</title>
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In this modern world of Political Correctness every news reporter and commenter has to observe some rules. Could it be the Ten Commandments of big media?
Thou shalt not say anything even remotely to do with the Gay lifestyle unless your name is Ellen Degeneress.
Thou shalt not piss off any company that is paying for adds.
Thou [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127705</link>
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		<title>5 Online Security Tips For Valentines Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some, Valentines means they might be lonely. I’ve been there, and I know many who are there now. That loneliness can distort your perspective in a way that trumps common sense. This leads people to make badly considered decisions that only worsen their circumstances. Unfortunately, scammers use this raw emotion as leverage on online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Strawbs Find The Witchwood</title>
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In Part one I looked at the album Antiques and Curios, it was a very fine album, but it was obvious that the band were still  trying to find their feet. From The Witchwood fixed that problem, but created many others.
I was lucky to have had the opportunity to have interviewed both Dave Cousins and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Woman Missing After Walking Kids To School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You would think it would be a good thing to walk your children to school to keep them safe, but you never expect something to happen to you on the way back home. Yesterday morning, Loisisnett Garcia-Rengel left her home to walk her children to the Lake Nona Middle School but she never returned home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127701</link>
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		<title>Amber Alert Issued for Fort Worth Girl, 11 Year Old Jessica Smith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Amber Alert in Fort Worth Texas has been issued for 11 year old Jessica Smith who police believe was taken by her mother, Kimberly Smith. Although they decline to say why, the police are reporting the girl could be in danger.
According to Jessica’s older sister, 16 year old Caitlin Fields, there has been some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127697</link>
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		<title>Bella&#8217;s Dad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s hard to follow American politics from ten thousand miles away (I live in the rural Philippines, and we get the news a day late), but as a Democrat, I was bemused to read in today&#8217;s papers that Rick Santorum just won in the Republican primaries of Minnesota and Missouri.
Santorum? I wasn&#8217;t aware he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127694</link>
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		<title>The Breivik salute</title>
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I did not immediately comment on this because I thought it would be obvious to everyone &#8212; but apparently not.  When Breivik last faced court over his massacre he gave a salute as he came into the courtroom. His lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said was &#8217;some kind of Right-wing extremist greeting.&#8217;
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		<title>Bomb is ticking to destroy the Indian Banking System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was not surprised yesterday when I received information that  one customer of Punjab National Bank had lost Rs 80 lakhs in a Phishing fraud. I  was not also surprised that part of the proceeds were transferred to the account  of some customer of PNB in Kashmir indicating a straight link to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127695</link>
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		<title>The Strawbs – A Walk Down Memory Lane</title>
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I do not tend to use YouTube, in my mind it is mostly a collection of homemade videos of people doing really stupid things that likely resulted in a visit to the hospital, or cutesy videos of cats and dogs behaving in some bizarre manner.   
However I upgraded my opinion of the site yesterday. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127693</link>
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		<title>7 Year Old Boy Sets Home On Fire, His Little Sister Dies In The Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 2 year old little girl lost her life as she slept through a burning home, that her older brother set on fire. Shea Shea Yates was found by firefighters dead in her bedroom early Monday morning. The home was a trailer in Petersburg, Virginia, and the girl’s father, Cecil Yates said that the fire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127692</link>
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		<title>Susan Powell’s Boys Struck With an Axe Before Explosion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Pierce County Medical Examiner said that the two children of the missing Utah Woman, Susan Powell, that died in a house explosion along with their father, Josh Powell both were severely injured by “chops to the neck” but they died from carbon monoxide poisoning preceding an explosion. They are also listing the cause of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127687</link>
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		<title>IQ, conservatism and racism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 22nd January I commented on claims by two Canadian psychologists to the effect that conservatives and racists have low IQs.  One look at the study told me that it was brainless so I just reproduced the journal abstract and pointed out two of the things that made it brainless.  I didn&#8217;t see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127686</link>
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		<title>Susan Powell’s Sons Talked About Mom’s Disappearance Before Explosion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the parents of Susan Powell, the Utah woman that disappeared in December 2009, the children started talking about what happened to their mother on the night she disappeared.
The Huffington Post is reporting that the oldest son, Charles told his grandparents that his mother was in the trunk of the car that night that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127683</link>
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		<title>Corey Byrd Found Guilty of Murder of 4 Year Old Marc Bookal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marc Bookal disappeared while in the care of his mother&#8217;s boyfriend, Corey Byrd, on December 14, 2009 in his mother’s home in Newburgh, N.Y. Byrd claimed that while he was getting dressed to go to a relatives house that the boy must have went out the front door which was left open and he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127677</link>
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		<title>Movie Review: Iron Lady</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To watch the film &#8220;The Iron Lady&#8221; is like trying to learn about a person from a list.
Grocer&#8217;s daughter, check. Politician, check. Anti Thatcher demonstrations, check. Falklands war, check. Going to celebrate the fall of the Iron curtain, check.
For anyone not aware of the history of the 1970&#8217;s and 1980&#8217;s, the quick scenes depicting some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Powell Is Still Missing, Her Husband, Josh Powell and Two Sons Die in Home Explosion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just recently the husband of a missing woman, Susan Powell from Utah, lost a custody battle of their two children, ages 5 and 7. Susan’s Mother and Father were given custody and Josh Powell was ordered by the courts to undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation which police say he was very upset about. Josh had lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep dishonor in America&#8217;s Leftist academe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Humanities faculty at Durham&#8217;s Duke University have demonstrated bigoted anti-white attitudes that are perfectly mainstream among such faculty at American universities. An amazing total of 88 of them signed the now notorious condemnation of the innocent Duke lacrosse players before the players  had even appeared in court, let alone been convicted.  Their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127672</link>
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		<title>DVD Review: Northern Lights - The Complete Collection</title>
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Nothern Lights – The Complete Collections is an ITV series that aired on BBC America and was produced from 2004-2008. The series follows the lifelong friends and rivals, Colin Armstrong (Ronson Green) and Howard Scott (Mark Benton) on their hilarious misadventures. From a stint in witness protection to an international Santa competition, there is never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127669</link>
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		<title>Jack Young Meets His Alamo Making The Alamo</title>
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Stuntmen and Daredevils share one common trait, at some point in their career, regardless of how well prepared and planned a stunt goes south, and goes south in a life threatening way. That reality hit Jack Young in 1959 while making the classic western The Alamo.
Even if you are not a western fan The Alamo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: The Brontes Of Haworth</title>
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The Brontes of Haworth is a finely crafted portrait that explores the soaring artistic achievements and personal tragedies of England’s most accomplishes literary family. The drama is a sensitive exploration of the Brontes tender and tragic family history. Although it has never aired in the U.S. on TV, the miniseries did air in the U.K. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127667</link>
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		<title>DVD Review: New Tricks, Season 6</title>
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New Tricks, Season 6 is a long-running, award winning series which combines compelling stories and likeable characters. It has a top-notch cast, which is now available on DVD, including Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman, Alun Armstrong and James Bolam. The cast stars as a team of semi-retired detectives that set out to solve cold cases.
New Tricks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALPR – A Who’s Who - And A Warning</title>
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Whats ALPR? All is explained in this article.
The one thing that I love about technology companies is that they love to brag. There are few that cannot resist the limelight! And of course the Internet offers the perfect stomping ground.
In my previous article I expressed some concerns about ALPR and the way the data might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALPR – Automatic License Plate Recognition</title>
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Science Fiction has very much become Science Fact with ALPR technology. What is it? In simple terms it is a camera and some software that can be in a fixed location or mounted in a vehicle that will scan vehicle license plates and see if the car is stolen or if there outstanding warrants for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Busts 5 Bonanno Crime Family Members, Plus A Gambino</title>
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While the FBI may not seem to be making great inroads into the Mexican Mafia, they continue to hammer away at the more established crime families of New York. The latest bust coming on Jan/27 with a 14 count indictment against 5 Bonnano falily members and a Gambino foot soldier.
The charges contained the usual mixture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;Assault With A Deadly Glue Gun: An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery&#8221; by Lois Winston</title>
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Anastasia Pollack is not having a good time lately. Her husband Karl recently died in Vegas.  The fact that he died on a roulette table at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas was pretty bad. The fact that he was a closet gambler, cleaned out every account they had without her knowing about it, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whine! whine! whine!  Would YOU be devastated if you found that most physicists are men?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a profoundly unscientific article, two female physicists are apparently deeply disturbed by the reality concerned.  Under the heading &#8220;Women in physics: A tale of limits&#8221; Rachel Ivie and Casey Langer Tesfaye have written a long screed that can be summarized with both brevity and accuracy by a very fashionable whine:  &#8220;We bin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Were Steeleye Span Closet Wombles?</title>
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OK I know that this will take a little explanation. The Brits know all about Dallas, and who shot JR. In Fact I seem to recall being on a flight to Dallas/Fort Worth and the pilot coming on the air to tell us!
So who are, or what were the Wombles? It was a delightful childrens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managers tried to hide fake Voice of America interview from Broadcasting Board of Governors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BBG Watch News Commentary

According to BBG Watch sources, executives in charge of U.S. international broadcasting have been trying to keep secret the fake Voice of America (VOA) interview with a Russian opposition leader from members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) who have the ultimate responsibility over VOA and other U.S. government-funded news operations.
Sources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1956 and The Conqueror, Does Not Conquer The Box Office</title>
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Several weeks ago I was sent an early galley for Sam Moffie’s soon to be released book To Kill The Duke. At first I was convinced that Sam had completely lost his mind! The plot that Sam uses is that Josef Stalin sent assassins to the US to wipe out John Wayne. And as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barling &#038; Barrett Bow Down To The Prolate Spheroid</title>
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In humble homage to the Prolate Spheroid we have decided to take a week off. No program on Sunday. OK so what is a Prolate Spheroid you ask? Well it is subtly different from an Oblate Spheriod.
According to a PhD Richard E. Barrans Jr. an oblate spheroid describes the shape of an M&#38;M candy:

Its axis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Impressions of Oscar Contender Bullhead By Writer/Director Michael Roskum</title>
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The film business is not an easy one. Mostly what the audience sees has been preordained by the big studios, big budgets, big name stars, and big clout with the distributors and movie theater chains. There is little room for the indie film maestro. However once in a great while an Indie film maker does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Smell A Scam – Wazzub?</title>
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The internet is fertile ground for idiocy. Based on the emails that I get on a daily basis I should be richer than Bill Gates, be hung like an Elephant, and have the body of a Greek god. Most of these emails get caught in the Spam filter, but occasionally one sneaks its way through.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Royal Rumble Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The boisterous crowd of over 18,000 at the Scottrade Center, in St. Louis, Missouri, welcomed spectators to the first WWE pay-per-view event of the year – the Royal Rumble. Fans eagerly anticipated the Main Event – the 30 man over-the-top-rope Royal Rumble Match. But, before that, they were treated to several intense undercard matches, two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zahra Baker’s Father, Adam Baker is Back In Australia With Daughter’s Remains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adam Baker was deported by U.S, officials to Australia about 10 to 14 days ago according to what his attorney, Shell Pearce said Monday. Baker was held back from leaving while he faced charges which were not related to his daughter’s death in Catawba County, North Carolina. He received a suspended sentence of 45 days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Nod For Belgium Film Bullhead</title>
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An Oscar nomination is every film makers dream. Alas the number of dreams that are realized is very few. This is particularly true for independent movies. The problem lays not in the quality of the films, but in the almost insurmountable problem of finding screening opportunities for eyeballs to watch it.
This is doubly true when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The malignant rise of gesture politicis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All is fair in love and war and, I suppose we have to accept, politics as well. ‘Twas ever thus perhaps – only someone seriously ignorant of history would say that politics has ever been free of cant and cover up and of posturing and play-acting.  As Harry Truman said “If you don&#8217;t like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking fish oil during pregnancy &#8216;protects babies from eczema&#8217; (??)</title>
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The great fish oil religion again.  This is actually a fairly dishonest piece of work.  As you will see from the appended journal article there was NO DIFFERENCE in overall allergy sensitivity at the end of the experiment.  
But a bit of data dredging turned up a couple of reactions which looked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The great diabetes fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In their constant struggle to get control of what we eat,  the food Fascists are always warning us that &#8220;obesity&#8221; will give us diabetes,  which is a very nasty ailment indeed.  But, as far as I can see, this is deliberate dishonesty.  A well-known symptom of diabetes is insatiable eating (&#8221;polyphagia&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack N. Young StuntMan(part 2) From Snorkel To Stirrups</title>
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In part one I looked at the way that a very successful (or maybe lucky) World War II Navy frogman survived over a 100 missions, returned home and had aspirations of becoming an actor. He headed to Hollywood to seek his fame and fortune.

As you know Jack Young managed to get his first real break [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concert Review-Zac Brown Band Germain Arena-Naples, Florida 1-27-12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This is a guest article by author John Cherry. He is the author of two books, Better Than Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Solo Music Career 1970-2010 he can be found at Betterthanlennon.com  - Simon
The advertised start time for the Zac Brown Band (ZBB) show at Germain Arena in Naples, FL was 7 PM. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Anthony - Barling &#038; Barrett and Panel Talk</title>
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If you missed today&#8217;s program, you missed a very interesting discussion. When you take four people Mannie Barling, Simon Barrett, William Cobra Staubs and Dave Knechel , throw in a subject as contentious as Casey Anthony and you have trouble on your hands.
Yup, I was right, it was a fine example of 4 people disagreeing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Jack N. Young – Stuntman Extraordinaire!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I published an article about  soon to be released book To Kill The Duke by author Sam Moffie. I went to great pains in the article to not discuss the plot nor the background of the story.
So I was somewhat surprised when a reader left a comment that revealed some insider info. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Anthony - Barling &#038; Barrett Wonder About This Case?</title>
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The team of Mannie Barling and Simon Barrett have decided to take one last look at this case. We have invited our good friends Dave Knechel and William Cobra Staubs to join us.
You can expect some fireworks!
The Casey Anthony story is one that just seems to have created a life of its own. Wars rage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sugar Is NOT Sugar – Say Researchers – Corn Refiners Association Likely Having A Fit!</title>
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We have all seen the TV ad’s sponsored by the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) explaining in loving and simple family terms that there is no difference between natural Cane Sugar and the Franken sugar derived from putting corn through an entirely chemical and un-natural process to produce High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).

Health and nutrition experts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;Under Investigation: US Grant Short Mysteries&#8221; by Jeffrey Marks</title>
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Author Jeffrey Marks has put together an interesting and very enjoyable collection of previously published stories featuring Ulysses S. Grant. Each story occurs during the Civil War and before the time of the first US Grant Mystery Novel, The Ambush of My Name. The stories portray Grant as a detective bringing his skills to bear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: War Horse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[World War I is getting some attention in the entertainment industry lately, with the high class hit &#8220;Downton Abbey&#8221; and now the Stephen Spielburg film &#8220;War Horse&#8221;.
The plot is simple: think of Lassie comes home (the 1943 version) of a beloved animal separated from his master and trying to survive. Except in this one it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gangsters Of Yesteryear – The Barker Karpis Gang</title>
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It was 77 years ago this month that one of the most notorious mobs of the 30’s met their end. Unlike many gangsters they really did not have a ‘home turf’, home became wherever they happened to be.
Life began to unravel for the group in 1936, and opting for personal safety the gang split up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving 2-yr-old Baby Veronica: Petition with 20,000 signatures delivered to Senators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On New Year’s Eve, Jessica Munday watched helplessly as her close friends, Matt and Melanie Capobianco were forced to hand over their adopted little girl, Veronica, to her birth father. Now Munday and Stephanie Brinkley (a Charleston adoption attorney) are on a mission to "save Veronica.”]]></description>
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		<title>Great Deals Online - NOT!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get a gazzillion offers for great stuff in my email. If I jumped into some of the offers I would be a billionaire several times over, and my personal measurements would embarrass an Elephant! Because of a love of my wife, small rented house, and a dwindling bank account, I tend to ignore these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Year Old Child Found Alone a Half Mile From her Home in Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so mad right now and perhaps I shouldn’t be writing this while I am fuming but I needed to do so. Yesterday, in Miramar Beach, Florida, the Walton County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 27 year old woman, Katherine Donovan, for child neglect.
According to the report a unknown citizen spotted a 4 year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Irritants Pervasive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Use to be during the Christmas season in modern America, if the individual wanted a little buzz during the holidays, they would slip a bit of something into their eggnog.  Now, all you have to do to feel that surge of agitated surliness is to turn on the news or read about those turning themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA PIPA And The Rest OF The PA’S..…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are few people that would disagree with legislation that limits their ability to use the internet. Maybe the best known rendition of this is The Great Firewall Of China. Needless to say access to this site from China was curtailed several years ago.
It also would appear that Myanmar (Burma for us old folks), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of Three Abandons Children All Under the Age of Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Portsmouth, New Hampshire police an arrest warrant has been issued for 25 year old Miranda Rifenburgh after she abandoned her three children on January 14, 2012. She is being charged with three counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Minor. The Division of Children Youth and Families have been notified.
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		<title>15 lakh digital certificates in India likely to be held invalid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a significant development in Bangalore, a quasi judicial authority has issued an order that has legal sanctity in which he has interpreted that under one important section of the Information Technology Act the term &#8220;Person&#8221; used in the Act applies only to a &#8220;natural person&#8221; and not a &#8220;body corporate&#8221;.
This decision has created a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Disrespect for Religious Conscience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in the Philippines, thanks to Wikileaks, we know that not only American money is behind our &#8220;Reproductive Health Bill&#8221;, but that the American State Department is pressuring our president to pass the bill.
Heaven knows that the Philippines does need access to cheaper Birth control, but it&#8217;s not as if it&#8217;s not available: they sell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Review:Close At Hand  by James McCartney</title>
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 This is a guest article by author John Cherry. He is the author of two books, Better Than Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Solo Music Career 1970-2010 he can be found at Betterthanlennon.com  - Simon
The second CD of the James McCartney “Complete EP Collection” is titled “Close at Hand,” and it is as impressive as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon:  To Kill The Duke by Sam Moffie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like Sam Moffie, you just never know where he is going to head next. Every book is completely different.  A brand new literary luncheon. Well I have great news, the world is about to get a brand new word feast from Sam Moffie.
Sam contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Anthony – Newt Gingrich Whats The Difference?</title>
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Well actually quite a lot. One is old and reasonably rich, the other is young, brainless, and likely penniless.
But who paid the bigger price for being found guilty? Newt fessed up $300,000 yet Casey has managed to even avoid the $25 a month for probation. So who is the smarter one?
Casey was accused of murder; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great IT Jokes</title>
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It was with fun that I read the latest article on this subject from Infoworld. At one time or another everyone working for a large company has found themselves as the victim. It does not matter if you are IT geek, Corporate user, or just poor customer. The stories are always fun, yet also troublesome.
My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barling &#038; Barrett – Casey Anthony And More</title>
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This week the team of Mannie Barling and Simon Barrett revisited the Casey Anthony story. At issue was not the criminal case but the ‘cottage industry’ of civil cases that have sprung up subsequent to her criminal trial.
While at face value they all appear to have moralistic merit, that does not imply that there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are religious people better adjusted psychologically?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The academic article below offers some interesting facts but the perspective appears to be  a Leftist one so I thought I might offer a different perspective.  I add some comments at the foot of the article
Psychological research has found that religious people feel great about themselves, with a tendency toward higher social self-esteem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An uninsightful look at racist attitudes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is an academic journal article which claims that &#8220;racists&#8221; have low IQs.  I append some comments at the foot of it
Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes
Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact
Gordon Hodson et al.
Abstract
Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kidnapper Killed, 11 Year Old Victim Found Unharmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Amber Alert was issued yesterday for 11 year old Taylor Vo, from San Jose California. Reports say that 42 year old Tri Truong Le broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home looking for her and since he could find her at home he took her daughter at gunpoint forcing her to go with him.
Yesterday afternoon authorities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127592</link>
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		<title>Rick Wakeman – Amazing Grace (CD/DVD) Revisited</title>
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 I have no clue as to how many CD’s and DVD’s I have. Buts it’s a lot, most are crap, and sit in huge piles in dark corners. I do have a list of favorites, but rarely do I have the time to visit with them. In fact my ‘favorites’ pile has been dwindling. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amber Alert Issued For 11 Year Old California Girl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The San Jose Police Department issued an Amber Alert for an 11 year old girl that was apparently abducted by 42 year old Tri Le, her mother’s ex-boyfriend. According to the police Le broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home on Taffy Court San Jose, California.
The police say Le assaulted a family member then he fired off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/127589</link>
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		<title>The Newter Knows How To Hand It Out, But Not Take It</title>
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It takes millions of years for a star to implode. It takes mere seconds for a politician to achieve the same result. We saw that with Herman (Munster) Cain, his run for the White House crashed faster than a failed Soviet rocket launch. Today Rick (no one votes for me) Perry also withdrew from winning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Anthony:  How to Generate Lots of Civil Cases Without Really Trying</title>
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For many Americans, civil and criminal cases seem 180 degrees apart.  But, the reality is that they are kissing cousins and tools to whipsaw parties when it suits lawyers, prosecutors and other special interest groups looking for free publicity, seeking to build a resume to run for public office and other third parties using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Review: Available Light by James McCartney</title>
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This is a guest article by author John Cherry. He is the author of two books, Better Than Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Solo Music Career 1970-2010 he can be found at Betterthanlennon.com  - Simon
I had heard the music from James McCartney’s first release, an EP titled “Available Light.” This CD has all of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Know When You Are Famous…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your Facebook account gets hacked! The attack came from China, and it begs a few questions. The population of China is guestimated to be a staggering 1,338,299,500, that makes it even bigger than Texas! I suspect that with all the Wings and Wongs needing to claim Facebook real estate that it is pretty darn tough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DC Grants Rats More Rights Than Unborn Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A law has been enacted by the DC city council that not only must most forms rodentine vermin be captured for rerelease, but that they must also be relocated as family units.These creatures are not a pod of whales, a herd of elephants, or a troop of gorillas.Given that they will even eat their young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Years of Autism Sunday celebrated on 12th February 2012</title>
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(London, UK) Autism Sunday celebrates 10 Years (2002 - 2012) on Sunday the 12th of February this year. Autism Sunday is the brainchild of British autism campaigners Ivan and Charika Corea - what started as a small acorn of an idea in their front room has turned into a massive global event, celebrated in many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barling &#038; Barrett on Arson – Wrap Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This week on the program we decided to tackle the crime of arson. It is a very wide ranging crime, and depending on the situation can come with very severe consequences including the Death Penalty.
Earlier in the week Mannie and I had a planning session for the program and we decided that this would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Will Make a Bigger Splash in 2012, Mobile Wallet or EMV?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the latter half of the past decade, a heated battle has been fought around the world to determine which payment method will take center stage in the coming years. Many believe mobile payment will leapfrog what is known as EMV, which stands for Euro MC/Visa, or chip and PIN credit card technology, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Necessary Security Updates for 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are changes coming in the world of security technology. Never before have so many criminals been so organized across borders as they are today. The Internet has spawned international crime syndicates of the best of the best criminal minds, who seek to take from you, your government, and all the merchants we rely on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Old white guys&#8217; meet &#8216;cute young intern&#8217; and First Amendment at the Broadcasting Board of Governors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A commentary by BBG Watch
Cute High School Intern
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) officials have gotten so used to running their small federal agency like their own private country club that they still frequently forget that at least some of their meetings can now be viewed online.
While the video from the last BBG meeting was streamed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My take on an ancient controversy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Roman Catholic church claims special authority for itself on account of the alleged fact that the disciple Peter was the first Bihop of Rome and that Christ had given Peter special powers that Peter passed on to later bishops of Rome.  The Bishop of Rome is these days referred to as the Pope, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TJ Hart Now On 98.3 WOW-FM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of our readers here at Bloggernews.net wondered what had happened to our Sunday radio regular TJ Hart. Well I am very pleased to tell you all that TJ is alive and well!
He has moved from Florida and taken up residence in Des Moines, Iowa where he is the Operations Manger for five regional radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolve to Be Digitally Secure This New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s get one thing straight: it’s no longer possible to deny that your personal life in the physical world and your digital life are one and the same. Meaning, while you are present here on the ground, you continue existing online, whether you know it or like it or not.
Coming to terms with this reality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Republican Bun Fight AKA The Primary Season</title>
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Watching the Republican contenders for a finalist spot in the 2012 political Superbowl next November is actually quite entertaining. It reminds me of a time some 20 years ago when one of my kids decided that the perfect pets were a couple of Garter Snakes. Of course like all kids, he lost interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mother’s True Love, A Heartbreaking Story, A Must Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was sound asleep in my nice warm bed, when I heard a familiar voice calling out to me saying, “Mom can you come here a minute?” I wasn’t exactly jumping for joy that my son woke me from a good sleep since that is something I don’t often get to do but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responsibilities of an Intermediary under ITA 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Government of India summoned the major social networking companies namely Google, Face Book and Yahoo and demanded that they install a pre-publication manual monitoring system for content filtering, there has been considerable discussions about what is right, what is feasible, what is legal etc about the &#8220;Due Diligence&#8221; required to be exercised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Security Tips For Holiday Shopping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. During the holidays, criminals engage in “black-hat SEO,” wherein they create fake websites and then use the same techniques as legitimate online businesses regarding search engine optimization, marketing, and online advertising via Google AdWords. They use keywords to boost rankings on Internet searches, causing their spoofed websites to appear alongside legitimate websites. These same [...]]]></description>
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